of any church. Both the death and resurrection of Christ appear in the book of Revelation. He is called “The first begotten of the dead” (c. i. 5), “He that liveth and was dead” (c. i. 88), “The Lamb as it had been slain,” before whom the four living creatures and the elders (as representing the whole Church) fall down, saying, “Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation” (c. v. 6 to 10). And John says that he was in exile, “for the Word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ” (c. i. 9). What was this “testimony,” other than that which Luke says in Acts (c. iv. 2) was given by Peter and John when the Sadducees were “grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus Christ the resurrection from the dead;” or other than that, given by Peter in the presence of John, (c. iii. 15) that the Jews had “killed the Prince of Life, whom God hath raised from the dead; _whereof we are witnesses_.” Even from the book of Revelation[3] alone, were there no other proof, should we conclude that _John_ testified that Jesus died and rose again. This was the burden of _Paul’s_ preaching and the inspiration of his life. Nor do we stop with Paul. From his writings we know that all the Apostles and the whole Church from the beginning, maintained the same grand theme with all the strength of conviction of which men are capable. He had been preaching three years prior to the first visit to Jerusalem referred to in Galatians (c. i. 18). At this visit he had “returned again,” to Damascus. His leaving Damascus was probably the time when he was let down from the wall in a basket, as stated in Second Corinthians (c. xi. 33), and the city was then held “under Aretus the King.” Fourteen years after his conversion or his escape (it is uncertain which), he went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with him. The precise date of his conversion is unknown, but was approximately[4] in the year 36. He writes of the last visit mentioned in Galatians, “that when James, Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.” From that time, then, if not before, with the full recognition of all the Apostles, he became distinctively the Apostle to the Gentiles. And at the first visit mentioned, he saw James, the Lord’s brother, and also Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. Afterwards, he went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, and was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea, but they had heard, “That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed;” and he says, “they glorified God in me” (c. i. 18-24). He says in the thirteenth verse, “Ye have heard of my conversation in time past, in the Jews’ religion, how